On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:07:20 -0400, andre999 <[email protected]> wrote:
If the fact it is a backport is ignored, then every backport would be, by definition, an update. Even packages newly imported to Mageia.
It depends on whether the user has set the backport repsository as an update repository, or not.
Backports are considered separately because they are much more at risk to not function properly, since they weren't tested with the rest of the release, being added afterwards. So we have to be much more careful
Thats why qa will be testing backports, to ensure they install cleanly, and the main features work. As a qa member, I will not validate a backport that either requires --allow-force, or that doesn't at least run. Regards, Dave Hodgins
